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His eyes smiled, as if he understood and despised her suggestion. "Cairo and your America are not so near," he observed negligently, "that an incident here is a matter of immediate knowledge there." She felt the danger of seeming to threaten him. "Oh, I'd 'fess up," she said lightly, playing with her food. "There shoo go away!" she cried suddenly, with a militant gesture about her plate.
"Those people who repaired the carriage," resumed Eliza Marshall, now beginning on one of her Dresden figures "those people who repaired the carriage spoke to your father about 'Melia, shoo that tramp out of the side yard; of course we haven't got anything for him this time of day. They spoke to your father about "
But when at my own piano Susannah sits down to play, I beg her to cut out Wagner and shoo all his noise away. "I'm weary and worn and beaten; my spirits," I say, "are low; so give us some helpful music a few bars of Jungle Joe!" The fool and his money are parted, not long did they stay in cahoots; but the fool is the cheeriest-hearted and gladdest of human galoots.
His wife sat in a deep chair before the fire, with her eyes on his face, waiting for him to wake. "Who is that out there?" he asked, without opening his eyes. "Indeed, indeed, I don't know, Jacob," his wife answered. "I reckon it's just some visitor of the girls'." "Was I snoring?" "Not a bit. You was sleeping as quiet! I did hate to have 'em wake you, and I was just goin' out to shoo them.
And speaking of "rhinos" suggests a little incident that the colonel told and which he considers amusing. "One day one of the party was stalking a buffalo, when a rhino suddenly appeared some distance away and threatened to charge or do something that would alarm the buffalo and scare it away. So they told me to hurry down and shoo the rhino off while they finished their stalk and got the buffalo.
"'Throp, shoo said, 'we'll noan be through wi t' wark by midneet. "'Then we sal hae to give ower, said Throp. 'It'll be Sunday morn i' a quairter of an hour, an' I'm noan baan to work o' Sunday. "When Throp's wife heerd that shoo burst out a-roarin'. 'I'm an idle good-for-nowt, shoo said. 'Eh! but I mun finish t' bag; I mun, I mun.
Overhead, skies were grey with ragged, shapeless cloud; below, the waters were the colour of slag and slapping angrily against the plates of the starboard bow under the drive of a wind from the north-east. The ashen cliffs of Dover came to meet the packet reluctant and inhospitable. By the harbour-entrance, a petulant squall of rain beat upon them as though to shoo them away.
'Some vehicle is coming. 'Oh, you don't hear... shoo! The tambourines... and whistling too....Do you hear? Take off your cap... you will hear better. I didn't take off my cap, but I listened. 'Well, yes... perhaps. But what of it? Filofey turned round facing the horses. 'It's a cart coming... lightly; iron-rimmed wheels, he observed, and he took up the reins.
And then as I was hurrying back you know it was rather moonlight last night, and not very cold and who should I see but the Doctor himself walking up and down the garden. I crouched in a minute behind a thick holly-tree, and I suppose I made a rustle, though I held my breath, for the Doctor stopped and shook the tree, and said `shoo, as though he thought a cat were hidden there.
He asked aggressively. Hopalong paled with sudden anger, but controlled himself. "It's because yu murdered Harris," he replied. "Shoo! An' how does yu figger it out?" Asked Thirsty, jauntily. "He was huntin' yu hard an' yu thought yu'd stop it, so yu came in to lay for him. When yu saw me an' him together yu saw di' chance to wipe out another score.
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